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No. 246,283. Patented Aug. 30,1881.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

COT OR SACKING FOR CAMP-BEDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,283, dated August 30, 1881,

Application filed J annary 22, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMORY A. BARRETT, of Thompson, in the county of Windham and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cots or Sackings for Camp-Beds; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 an end view, Fig.3 a side elevation, and Fig. 4 atransverse section, of a camp-bed formed of two folding camp-stools and a cot or sacking made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 5 is a top view, Fig. 6 a side View, and Fig. 7 an end view, of the folding cot or sacking.

My present improvement relates to the out of the cam p-bed as hereinafter described.

The bed shown in the said drawings is composed of two folding camp-stools, A A,and a cot or sacking imposed thereon. Each campstool consists of two frames, (1 d, crossing one another at or near their middles, and there pivoted together, and also of a sheet of cloth or carpet, e, fastened at or near its two opposite edges to the upper bars of the two frames so as to extend from one to the other of such bars. The folding cot consists of a sacking or sheet of cloth, C, and two sets, B B, B B, of bars, those of one set being connected with those of the other by hinges D D, applied to it, arranged with them in manner as shown. From the middle of each bar, and from the side of it to which the hinge is fixed, there extends froin the bar a stud or pin, a, which is to enter a hole made down through the middle (N0 model.)

of the top bar of one of the camp-stools, such being in order to connect the cot to the campstool. The sacking C, nailed to the inner sides of the bars of the two sets, and arranged therewith as shown,has at its middle and next the two hinges bound slits I) I), each of which extends from the edge in toward the middle of the sacking a sufficient distance to prevent the sacking while being folded together from being torn or broken away from the bars, as it would be liable to be, or unavoidably would be, without such slits in it.

On turning the bars B B over upon the bars B B the folding of one half of the cot over upon the other half of it may be effected in order for the cot to be subsequently rolled together in a small compass.

The camp-bed consisting of the folding cot and two stools, as described, I usually provide with head and foot boards or frames F G, each of which has pins projecting from it into the bars B B or B B, and such head and foot frames may be used also as backs to the cam pstools by being applied to them as such frames are to the cot.

What I claim as my invention or improvement is- The sacking or cloth C, provided with the bound slits or openings 1) b, and arranged and combined with the two sets of bars B B, B B, hinged together, all being as and for use as explained, with two camp-stools, as set forth.

EMORY A. BARRETT.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

